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The Justice Women: A Novel Of Life In Detroit's Black Bottom
ISBN: 9781492956495 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,41 |
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Idle, Wild, Love
ISBN: 9780615921402 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Hannah returns home to Idlewild, Michigan from Paris to escape World War II; Henry expects the awkward, frumpy girl to appear, not the beautiful, outspoken woman at the train station. The bed-hopping Henry, now finds his match in his pious, childhood friend Hannah, who wants nothing to do with him and his flirtation. He must confront his alcoholism and childhood scars from a Jim Crow South. This journey towards emotional healing sets him on a path to learn unforgettable lessons in life and love. Soon, when tragedy strikes, both Henry and Hannah's faith are tested. Will they remain in...
When Hannah returns home to Idlewild, Michigan from Paris to escape World War II; Henry expects the awkward, frumpy girl to appear, not the beautiful,...
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Five Freedom Fables: The Non-Fiction Fiction of America's Civil Rights Years
ISBN: 9781495346736 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five stories about major campaigns in the American civil rights movement, featuring lively portrayals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, Malcolm X, James Forman, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Wyatt Tee Walker, James Earl Ray, Mercury Astronaut Alan Shepard, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Five stories about major campaigns in the American civil rights movement, featuring lively portrayals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, Malcol...
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41,41 |
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Scrutineer's Wake: Discovery in D.C.
ISBN: 9781478728610 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Jalen Harkness, the challenge of a new and bullied student provides a teaching challenge which threatens his own desire to develop and grow as a historian.
For Jalen Harkness, the challenge of a new and bullied student provides a teaching challenge which threatens his own desire to develop and grow as a h...
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86,66 |
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Electros
ISBN: 9781492956884 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ezeamaka Wanyanga sets out on a journey to rescue his future queen, Johari Wokadi, from the evil clutches of slavery in the New World. Partnered with his loyal sidekick, Fu-Ching, Ezeamaka embarks upon a quest to reunite with his wife to be. No longer protected by the Golden Army, the banished warrior must overcome tremendous odds as he attempt to not only preserve his future but also the future of an entire race of people. Electros is the first installment of hundreds of stories that all spawn out of the mind of the author. Prepare to be delighted with a story of despair and tenacity and...
Ezeamaka Wanyanga sets out on a journey to rescue his future queen, Johari Wokadi, from the evil clutches of slavery in the New World. Partnered with ...
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22,30 |
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The Fortunes of Blues and Blessings
ISBN: 9780991551705 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." Described by many as the two faces of fortune, it is the blues and our blessings, one causing much heartbreak and the other providing immense joy. The Fortunes of Blues and Blessing is a historical American saga telling the story of a black family in America beginning in 1849 that spans more than 100 years and five generations. The family tree takes root in Sierra Leone with the capture of a young African named Zokaya, he's carried...
From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall...
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63,13 |
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A Strange and Bitter Fruit
ISBN: 9781477543856 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of innocents. This is the setting for the initial chapter of the historical thriller, A Strange and Bitter Fruit. Thomas "Tee" Powell, 15, manages to escape as his family is lynched. His father, Zeke, mother Hessie and young sisters Lannie and Effie were hung to teach the blacks of Aiken that voting is not the right of the former slaves, not anymore. He is angry, but instead of wildly lashing out at the Klansmen that murdered his family, he runs away. After a disastrous detour to Tallahassee, Tee joins...
A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of innocents. This is the setting for the initial chapter ...
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53,48 |
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The Bridge Club
ISBN: 9781495975059 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bridge Club meets every Saturday, rotating from house to house. The hard workers relax and talk about their lives, loves, and current affairs while playing cards. The real game, though, is in the repartee they use as a side diversion, a battle of intelligence, words, and "one-upmanship." They have many things in common; the biggest is a secret that they have passed down from generation to generation as far back as America is old. As the friends battle to keep their damning secret, they survive through bridge and the mind games they play in their group and with society. We follow the...
The Bridge Club meets every Saturday, rotating from house to house. The hard workers relax and talk about their lives, loves, and current affairs whil...
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28,81 |
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A New Season: The Fortunes of Blues and Blessings Book II
ISBN: 9780991551729 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to...
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to ...
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63,13 |
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Hell Hole
ISBN: 9780991239047 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,95 |
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The Color of Justice
ISBN: 9781426770036 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two racially charged cases. Two attorneys searching for the truth. But only one will stay alive long enough to find it. 1964 Justice, Mississippi, is a town divided. White and black. Rich and poor. Rule makers and rule breakers. Right or wrong, everyone assumes their place behind a fragile faCade that is about to crumble. When attorney Coop Lindsay agrees to defend a black man accused of murdering a white teenager, the bribes and death threats don't intimidate him. As he prepares for the case of a lifetime, the young lawyer knows it's the... Two racially charged cases. Two attorneys searching for the truth. But only one will stay alive long enough to find it. |
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67,07 |
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Henry Free At Last
ISBN: 9781495424458 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fictional story of a family of free slaves that were kidnapped and sold back into slavery and a search for them over two years by their former owner. During the two years they experienced fictional but many actual historical experiences including the kidnapper and murderer Patty Cannon of Delaware, The Wye Town Plantation of Talbot County, Maryland, a fictional North Carolina plantation that handled their slaves contrary to the majority of southern plantations. The story hopes to shed light on both sides in the use of slaves as our nation grew. Which has become our heritage. A heritage of...
A fictional story of a family of free slaves that were kidnapped and sold back into slavery and a search for them over two years by their former owner...
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37,26 |
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No Land to Call Home
ISBN: 9781460234372 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nendela, an African princess of rare beauty lives by the rhythms and perfumes of Mother Africa, her home. One night the rhythms of Mother Africa changed. Her people were attacked by white men with guns. Beaten and bound by chains she is captured by slave traders and torn from the bosom of Mother Africa. Nendela tells her story from a child's perspective; her journey and hardships in fulfilling her destiny and-The Prophecy. From the moment of her capture; to the birth of her twins aboard a slave ship during a storm, Nendela must be strong and believe she is the chosen one. Antar the quiet...
Nendela, an African princess of rare beauty lives by the rhythms and perfumes of Mother Africa, her home. One night the rhythms of Mother Africa chang...
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201,15 |
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No Land to Call Home
ISBN: 9781460234389 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nendela, an African princess of rare beauty lives by the rhythms and perfumes of Mother Africa, her home. One night the rhythms of Mother Africa changed. Her people were attacked by white men with guns. Beaten and bound by chains she is captured by slave traders and torn from the bosom of Mother Africa. Nendela tells her story from a child's perspective; her journey and hardships in fulfilling her destiny and-The Prophecy. From the moment of her capture; to the birth of her twins aboard a slave ship during a storm, Nendela must be strong and believe she is the chosen one. Antar the quiet...
Nendela, an African princess of rare beauty lives by the rhythms and perfumes of Mother Africa, her home. One night the rhythms of Mother Africa chang...
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112,71 |
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A Founding Mother: Miss Ruth
ISBN: 9781499508208 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Founding Mother fits into the genre of slave narrative. Told in first person, interior monologue, and initially set in the 18th Century. Much of the story is about the foundations of a new country and trying to find one's place in that new world. As the country develops, so too does Ruth. Uprooted from her native Africa, Ruth recollects facets of her life at times when she most needs something to guide and strengthen her. Through the novel, Ruth is party to many encounters with people like her, people trying to find a place to call home. For Ruth, her quest takes her on a perilous journey...
A Founding Mother fits into the genre of slave narrative. Told in first person, interior monologue, and initially set in the 18th Century. Much of the...
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Civilized Blacks: Free American Negroes in the 1870's Whose Lives Paralleled the Life of Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9781480909007 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,27 |
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Journey to the Promised Land
ISBN: 9781493198740 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,87 |
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Undaunted
ISBN: 9781495955297 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,97 |
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Mississippi Jangle
ISBN: 9781499797176 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story takes place in 1912, with the narrator being a young girl named Heattie. Her memories take her to the times when the Sisterhood, one who is her grandmother, would sit on the front porch and tell stories, past and present. Even though the stories are being told on the front porch, Heattie's life get's caught between the stories and the mysteries of real life. In the midst of the stories and the mysteries, Heattie and her best friend, Luceen, have several adventures while trying to solve certain mysteries of lost identities and murder. Heattie is overcome with curiosity, fear, and...
This story takes place in 1912, with the narrator being a young girl named Heattie. Her memories take her to the times when the Sisterhood, one who is...
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91,16 |
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Marshland
ISBN: 9781490348100 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the start of the Civil War, a slave family escapes from a plantation outside of Beaufort, South Carolina, living off the land as taught by their ancestors. When their comfortable life is suddenly disrupted by an unfortunate encounter with a Union Army Soldier causing them to flee again, these ex-slaves fear that being caught and sent back to their owners is the least of their worries. As the family makes their way from the mainland of the South Carolina Low Country, to Pinckney Island, and finally to Hilton Head Island, they encounter many ex-slaves along the way. Some are able to help,...
At the start of the Civil War, a slave family escapes from a plantation outside of Beaufort, South Carolina, living off the land as taught by their an...
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